When police in Rio de Janeiro seize blocks of cocaine and bundles of marijuana they may well find them branded with a religious symbol – the Star of David. This is not a reference to the Jewish faith, ...

The gang selling these branded drugs is the Pure Third Command ... for allegedly ordering armed men to attack an Afro-Brazilian temple in another favela. While allegations of religious extremism ...

Drug smugglers are increasingly targeting bulkers at northern Brazil ports to carry illicit cargoes, using hiding places on ...

Brazil has a long land border with the world’s biggest cocaine producers — Colombia, Peru and Bolivia — and busy ports along ...

Alan Duarte grew up surrounded by violence in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. His closest brother was killed in a shootout between drug gangs. At that moment, Alan decided to make a change ...